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RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER. 

 PICUS QUERULUS, 

 [Plate XV.— Fig. 1.] 



Pe ale's Museum, JVo. 2027. 



THIS new species I first discovered in the pine woods of 

 North Carolina. The singularity of its voice, which greatly re- 

 sembles the chirping of young nestlings, and the red streak on the 

 side of its head, suggested the specific name I have given it. It 

 also extends thro South Carolina and Georgia, at least as far as the 

 Altamaha river. Observing the first specimen I found to be so 

 slightly marked with red, I suspected it to be a young bird, or im- 

 perfect in its plumage; but the great numbers I afterwards shot, 

 satisfied me that this is a peculiarity of the species. It appeared 

 exceedingly restless, active, and clamorous; and every where I 

 found its manners the same. 



This bird seems to be an intermediate link between the Red- 

 bellied and the Hairy Woodpecker, represented in plates VII and 

 IX of the first volume of this work. It has the back of the former, 

 and the white belly and spotted neck of the latter; but wants the 

 breadth of red in both, and is less than either. A preserved spe- 

 cimen has been deposited in the Museum of this city. 



This Woodpecker is seven inches and a half long, and thir- 

 teen broad ; the upper part of the head is black; the back barred 

 with twelve white transversely semicircular lines and as many of 

 black, alternately ; the cheeks and sides of the neck are white; 

 whole lower parts the same ; from the lower mandible a list of 

 black passes towards the shoulder of the wing, where it is lost in 



